SABINE BARING-GOULD, historian, antiquarian, novelist, and poet, was born at Exeter on the 28th of January, 1834. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and, taking Holy Orders, became successively Curate of Horbury, near Wakefield; Incumbent of Dalton, Yorks; Rector of East Mersea, Essex; and Rector of Lew Trenchard, Devon (1881). His works are very numerous and varied, the most important being Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (2 series, 186668), The Origin and Development of Religious Belief (2 vols., 186970), and Lives of the Saints (15 vols., 187277). His hymns appeared in the Church Times, Hymns Ancient and Modern, The Peoples Hymnal, and other collections. Perhaps the most perfect of these is the Easter hymn On the Resurrection morning. The most popular are Onward, Christian soldiers and Now the day is over.